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These roos were hen incubated and raised, now they are 5-6 mo. old and need new homes. Have not been handled much but are not too skiddish or not at all aggressive. The EE is soooo beautiful I hate to butcher him, he has silver, white, black and green all over him as well as a triple comb...

These roos were hen incubated and raised, now they are 5-6 mo. old and need new homes. Have not been handled much but are not too skiddish or not at all aggressive. The EE is soooo beautiful I hate to butcher him, he has silver, white, black and green all over him as well as a triple comb...

About a week ago one hen began to cough or sneeze and occassionally have a runny nose, looks a little under the weather but seems to be eating, drinking, and free ranging fine. Today seems a few more are starting to cough, could it be a cold or pneumonia? It has been getting cooler here and I...

We've already lost half our flock to a coyote so we're a little gun shy. Obviously we don't want a skunk hanging around anyway but are they a predator to chickens or eggs? Thanx for your imput!

Here are the first 4 (3 black with some white and yellow,barred rock and Australorp crosses, 1 dark brown, EE cross) that hatched. You can see some of their shells and the green egg that we were still anxiously waiting on to hatch: Then on day 2 or 3 I noticed that the chicks could get out...

Here are the first 4 (3 black with some white and yellow,barred rock and Australorp crosses, 1 dark brown, EE cross) that hatched. You can see some of their shells and the green egg that we were still anxiously waiting on to hatch: Then on day 2 or 3 I noticed that the chicks could get out...

Two black chicks poked their heads out of mama's feathers this afternoon, but she is still setting faithfully so left her alone to hatch the last 3, yeah!

Two black chicks poked their heads out of mama's feathers this afternoon, but she is still setting faithfully so left her alone to hatch the last 3, yeah!

So I closed her off in her own little pen and since she has done awesome, very vigilant. I candled the eggs when I put her in there and could see veins on most of them so that was encouraging but still didn't have much hope. So, I was leary to check them again but finally did a few days ago...

So I closed her off in her own little pen and since she has done awesome, very vigilant. I candled the eggs when I put her in there and could see veins on most of them so that was encouraging but still didn't have much hope. So, I was leary to check them again but finally did a few days ago...

Glad I found this - I had the same question about one of our ducks. She's not even using her leg now. I isolated her yesterday, cleaned both feet very well, pulled off scabs (two out of three had pus attached to the scabs, but what looked like fresh meat under). Although - her sore foot, the...

Oh good!!!!! That is so reassuring to hear! I may block her off or just make sure to check on her when the light goes off at night in case she's off the nest and can't find her way back. The other chickens seem to be leaving her nest alone so far and no others are acting broody but I probably...

My hen has been setting for 3 or 4 days and done very well but lastnight she lost her nest probably when the light went off and she ended up on another nest with no eggs.......... ;o( Her eggs were cold, but I put her back on them anyways, will they still be ok or should I swith them out for...

THanx so much for your share of knowledge KittyMomma. SHe was doing great. I decided not to block her off because I enjoyed the fact that she was getting down to eat and get a few moments of free ranging in etc. I marked the eggs with a marker in case any others were laid there then I'd know...

We were gone over the weekend and noone to get eggs for us, so I said to my husband "it will either be a mess when we get back or maybe it will put one of my young hens into setting mode"! Yeah! It seems to have worked in my favor!!!! But now what to do?! We got home to one of our Australorp...

I know this is an old post, but found it informative. I'm glad to hear the disease or the vaccine cannot transfer or be harmful to humans thru the egg but what about eating the chicken? Thanx!

bigstack wrote: I worked at a large freezer plant. We got alot of chiken feet (TONS) for export to china and russia. I saw ALOT of them with bumble foot. Didnt know what it was at the time. But I am glad its going to them and not me. Kinda gross but They got Massive amounts of feet shipped to...

I've treated bumblefoot. I wouldn't even eat the hen when she was all healed up. Mahonri Why? Does the staff stay in their body? Then do we want to be eating her eggs? I love your pic and storyline!

Thanx, that's kinda how i felt................so I guess I'll see if I get any more responses, maybe I'll treat her foot again and butcher her after it heals but I really don't want to wait or waste the meat.................grrrrrrr!

I butchered the first hen I had that had bumblefoot before i knew what it was. The second hen I "operated" on but apparently didn't cut deep enough and it has come back a little. I have other reasons for wanting to butcher her, but not sure if I should be concerned about the "infection" being...